In most situations, it is much easier to come to terms with bad news or negative outcomes when you have the ability to forgive.
If someone insults you verbally, the best way to move on without any kind of grudge is to forgive that person.
If you have made a mistake and paid the consequences for it, forgiving yourself is key when it comes to moving forward with your life.
If someone hurts you physically, forgiving that person is the key to move on and can prevent you from long-term resentment.
But what if you are being hurt physically, emotionally, or psychologically, and there is no one and nothing to blame?
What if your suffering simply exists? What if there is no warning, no reason, and no remedy? What if you have nowhere to extend forgiveness to in order to help you move on with your life?
Once you have been able to forgive and let go, it opens up your ability to adapt.
Unfortunately, chronic illness shows up without any known cause. Chronic illness can present itself in any situation, at any time, and in any way, and it results in your suffering.
Perhaps one of the reasons that people with chronic illness can sometimes seem so angry, frustrated, or utterly defeated, is because there is no one and nothing TO forgive. If forgiveness is the key to moving forward and letting go of grudges or resentment, then how are we supposed to move past those feelings if that forgiveness cannot be projected in any particular direction? How do you heal without being able to place blame and/or forgive something or someone for your suffering?